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Jefferson East, Inc. recognized for transforming Detroit’s east side neighborhoods

By Cindi Cook on 11/09/2017 All Neighborhoods

Jefferson East Executive Director Joshua Elling sits at the helm of an organization that is taking the lead in redevelopment on Detroit’s east side. Many east side Detroit residents know that growth is coming to their neighborhoods. One unbridled advocate of that growth is Jefferson East, Inc., or JEI, an organization not only heavily involved […]

Detroit Blight Busters recognized for neighborhood turnaround efforts

By Cindi Cook on 11/07/2017 All Neighborhoods

It was the late Eighties, and the neighborhood just to the south of where John George lives in Old Redford was feeling the pinch of the crack epidemic. “We didn’t want to be part of an expanding problem but part of a solution,” he says. It came a little too close to home – literally […]